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New York’s Such Gold are streaming a track from their soon-to-be-released album Deep in a Hole. The song chosen to get fans in the mood for their latest work is called “Ransom”, and can be listened to below.

If your a fan of Thrice or Matchbook Romance get ready because Aussie hardcore melodic act Perspectives are streaming their latest album “Stay For Those Who Care”. You can give the new album a listen below.

“Stay For Those Who Care” represents the first full length release since 2013’s “Blind”.

The band’s Wilhelm Records debut, the single “My Calamity” will be released soon. I got to preview it, and if you’re a fan of the label, you’ll like these guys. Keep an eye out here for the single’s release!

Hey look, Rise Against released a new album. Wolves is the band’s eighth full length studio album, and if you haven’t accepted the fact that they’ve settled into a very specific sound by now, you’re in for a world of disappointment. It’s been eleven years (!) since the band put out The Sufferer & the Witness, and other than switching out one guitarist for another, very little else has changed since then. Whether that’s a pro or a con is up to the listener.

Wolves is full of melodic-punk songs that could easily be interchanged with tracks off The Black Market without anyone noticing. That sounds like an insult, but it’s not meant to be one. Much like many of their Fat Wreck and Epitaph contemporaries, Rise Against have found their comfort zone and are sticking to it. Sure, Tim unleashes his scream here and there, like in the title track or “Too Many Walls” and there’s a hint of ska in “Bullshit” but the album is largely filled with 3 and a half minute songs that coast the line between societal politics and personal politics and are loaded with plenty of harmonizing “whoas.” Sometimes it pays off (“House on Fire” and “Mourning in Amerika” are catchy enough to satisfy anyone who enjoyed past singles “Tragedy + Time” and “Audience of One”) and sometimes it doesn’t (“Far from Perfect,” and “Politics of Love” aren’t terrible, but they’re certainly not memorable either).

“Megaphone” and “Broadcast[Signal]Frequency” are among the best songs on the album and it’s a shame that they’ve been relegated to bonus track status. Both are fast and aggressive- two traits that are often missing from the band’s current output. If you’re only going to listen to a handful of songs from the album, make it these two. They don’t accurately reflect the album proper, but to put it bluntly, these two songs are to Wolves what “Grammatizor” and “Voice of Dissent” were to Appeal to Reason.

Wolves might be Rise Against’s safest album yet. If you can get past that, however, Wolves isn’t all that bad of an album.

BarCreeps, the London based (via Hong Kong, Brighton and Rome) new signings for Disconnect, Disconnect Records, are releasing their label debut EP, “Battle Axe”, on May 26th. Not easily pigeon-holed, the band are equal parts melodic skate punk, technical hardcore and post-hardcore infused angular riffs, reflecting a self-confessed “love of record labels such as Fat Wreck, Epitaph, Touch and Go, Jade Tree and Dischord”.

We at Dying Scene are streaming “Battle Axe” ahead of the release on Friday. Have a listen below. Pre-orders are up now. The band are playing various shows through the summer in Southern England – full details of all dates are up on their Facebook gigs page.

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Not often we hear something from a completely unknown group that absolutely blows us away. Believe us, we listen to a lot of punk-- and news flash: not all of it's good. But 24 Hour Punks, discovered through a lucky click on bandcamp, is incredible. Think fast, intense melodic punk that lands somewhere between hard-hitting 90s skate and Cock Sparrer. It's a powerful concoction for a debut EP.
Even better, there's a story behind it. As the band's name suggests, Why We Fight was written, rehearsed, and recorded in 24 hours. All proceeds go to charity organization AMMF.
We're not kidding! Check out the three song EP and listen to 24 Hour Punks raise the bar here.